5. Patristic Literature

MS in Russian Church Slavonic on paper, Russia, ca. 1560, 167 ff. (-ca. 33), 22x14 cm, single column, (15x9 cm), 23 lines in Cyrillic half-uncial, headings and initials in red, a miniature of St. John and the ladder drawn around the final lines of the text.

MS in Russian Church Slavonic on paper, Russia, ca. 1500, with lines in Cyrillic half-uncial, with illustrations and illuminations in a form and style reminiscent of the frescoes of the Cathedral of the Annunciation in Kremlin in Moscow.

MS in Latin and Greek on vellum, Firenze, Italy, ca. 1420-30, in a very fine early humanistic book script and Greek minuscule by Guglielmino Tanaglia, possibly Niccolo Niccoli and a scribe; title leaf by Filippo di Matteo Torelli.